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As the husband of a teacher, I couldn't agree more. My wife was a remedial reading teacher and couldn't make any progress with some of the students because their parents would not reinforce her classroom work at home.

I'm not a big fan of throwing unlimited funds at education either, but maybe it would be best to kill most of the special programs and put the money back into the basic classroom?

The way I see it, when a student is doing poorly, it is a teacher's fault maybe 1/3 of the time. The other 2/3 of the time, it is the parents' fault.